Top 8 Best AdSense Alternatives

So you’re doing good for yourself and making decent earnings
off AdSense. But then one day you get that email in your inbox with the
subject “AdSense Account Disabled” and everything changes. You suddenly
realize that any other respectable Ad Networks either have low CPM or
are just pure scams. So here I’ve compiled a list of all the other
Advertising Networks I tried before I got my AdSense Account back.

While I am aware that Amazon Associates is technically an affiliate
network I wanted to include it on this list simply because it’s a great
source of extra revenue if you’ve got a site with a heavy and loyal
following or a high conversion rate. It pays out similar to any other
Affiliate program (based on sales) however since Amazon has such a large
variety of products its easier to find relevant products than with
other affiliate sites.

Chitika pays via PayPal and allows you to customize your ads to
better suit your websites like AdSense. The Downside to Chitika is its
search-driven meaning the ads shown, are based on what Search Terms were
used to get to your site not the keywords on your site.

This is ad network creates blue underlined words like hyperlinks in
your content automatically, and only shows ads when the links are
hovered over by the user. Currently, InfoLinks doesn’t support any type
of banner ads however they do have lower requirements so if your site is
just starting up it might be worth a try.

Despite having a rather strange name ProjectWonderful has a very
unique model based on advertisers renting time on your site. The best
part being that the system works on a bidding system so you usually end
up making more money than you would with CPM or PPC Ads.

Advertising.com is AOL’s solution to advertising (yes AOL) and has
become a very large and respectable ad network online, although they do
have rather high requirements compared to some of the others listed
above.

This Ad Network is by far the king of the CPM Networks and requires
about 500,000 Impressions per month. Although it has a high need it pays
off well with some of the highest CPM Rates on the internet, even when
compared to AdSense.

Media.net is part of the Yahoo | Bing Ad Network, and so is basically
Microsoft’s equivalent of AdSense. While the exact requirements are
unknown its very difficult to get invited into this ad network is so far
we’ve only seen sites with millions of monthly users using.

Bad Eggs

During my time looking for Google Adsense alternatives, I also found a
few spammy/scam Advertising networks that look legit but will end up
not paying you or showing fewer clicks/impressions then your ads
actually get.

RevenueHits

While this site would convince anyone that it’s a legit ad-network I
found that all of there ads were spammy download buttons, and sometimes
opened up popups or tried to download malicious software to the
visitor’s computer. I have also heard stories of people getting their
entire sites blacklisted from Google as being malicious because of
RevenueHits Ads.

AdHexa

While Adhexa will indeed pay you and has better quality ads then
RevenueHits they often seem to only count a fraction of the impressions
your actually getting which may simply be a software glitch on their
servers but still stay away until they become more reputable.

By Kyle Piira

I'm a computer science student at the University of Massachusetts and the founder of the Hoxly Corporation.